Botkube

Pricing and hosting

Pricing

Free

Open source

Yes (MIT)

Self-hosted

Yes

Launched

2018

Status

Maintenance only

Website

botkube.io

Plans and prices change; check the tool's own site before you decide.

What it does

Kubernetes and container monitoring checklist

6 of 10 confirmed in Botkube's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Kubernetes.

• + Cluster, node and pod metrics Yes
• + Kubernetes events Yes
• + Pod logs Yes
• x Cluster view No
• ? Requests and limits advice Not confirmed
• + Change timeline Yes
• x Network visibility No
• + Alerting Yes
• ? Multi-cluster Not confirmed
• + Runs in your cluster Yes

ChatOps bot: metrics and logs only on demand via kubectl top/logs from chat; change tracking via update events with diffs. Project in maintenance.

Checked against: github.com, docs.botkube.io, docs.botkube.io (2)

Notification delivery checklist

1 of 8 confirmed in Botkube's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Notifications.

• x Mobile push No
• x SMS No
• x Voice calls No
• x Email No
• + Chat apps Yes
• ? HTTP API or webhook ingest Not confirmed
• x Bypass silent mode No
• x Acknowledgement No

Sends Kubernetes events to Slack, Discord, Mattermost and Teams; also webhook/Elasticsearch sinks. Inbound messages are cluster events, not an HTTP message API.

Checked against: github.com, docs.botkube.io

Alternatives to Botkube

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• Netdata Per-second metrics for servers, containers and applications from an agent with built-in dashboards and alerts, plus the optional hosted Netdata Cloud.